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Here's a happy story from The Guardian about the power and majesty of the law.
Fed Dims Economic Outlook, Citing Uncertainty Over Tariffs ~ WSJ
So the Fed expects sharply lower growth and stubbornly high inflation -- it's called Stagflation in less refined circles. Both directly attributed to Trump’s trade wars.
Normally, that would be a wake up call for an administration.
The real problem will start when Trump focuses his attention squarely on the Fed and starts to demand multiple rate cuts in short order. That will really set the cat amongst the pigeons.
Has Science! tried to grow anything in the dirt brought back from the moon, anybody know? Tomatoes, grass, anything?
Trump to announce the end of Department of Education tomorrow in special event. I remember Republicans hoped Reagan would do it, but no. Nobody expected the Bush’s to do it. Since its inception, the cost of education has outpaced other services while the quality of education has declined. After Democrats used DeptEd to keep schools closed longer during Covid, it seemed inevitable there would be a backlash by the voters. I’m hoping to see an equivalent drop in school administration as some jobs, such as regulatory compliance, become obsolete.
Arguments about destroying education itself are foolish. The biggest budget line item for nearly every state is education. The effect locally will be up to the states.
"Michael Fitzgerald said...
Has Science! tried to grow anything in the dirt brought back from the moon, anybody know? Tomatoes, grass, anything?"
Well, there's a 1950's horror movie idea.
Lots of things going on. But soon we will all be distracted by wondering what is going on underneath the pyramids ……
Yes: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/scientists-grow-plants-in-lunar-soil/
Leland said...
Yes: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/scientists-grow-plants-in-lunar-soil/
3/19/25, 7:23 PM
Thank You, Leland! I love Brussel sprouts and now I know what regolith is. I wonder if soil from the dark side of the moon would be more fertile.
Arguments about destroying education itself are foolish. The biggest budget line item for nearly every state is education. The effect locally will be up to the states.
We spend a preposterous amount of money per pupil only to get graduates who cannot read their own diplomas. You might imagine that these are low IQ people passed through the system because of athletic skills, but lately it has included honors students (C.f. Aleysha Ortiz).
FullMoon said...
"Michael Fitzgerald said...
Has Science! tried to grow anything in the dirt brought back from the moon, anybody know? Tomatoes, grass, anything?"
Well, there's a 1950's horror movie idea.
3/19/25, 6:54 PM
LOL! That's what I was thinking! You eat the moon food and then it starts growing alien organisms inside you. The veins of the aliens appear like roots under the skin, then start breaking up the human form the way a seedling grows through concrete and eventually ruptures it... Something like that...
In a suburb of south Denver - a charter school is on track to be built. Well - not if the corrupt left can stop it. The corrupt insane left are calling the school "Maga and nazi." It's a charter school. Period. Charter Schools in CO are in high demand because the quality of education is so much better. Leftists hate that.
Michael Fitzgerald said...
Has Science! tried to grow anything in the dirt brought back from the moon, anybody know? Tomatoes, grass, anything?
The only thing you need to grow plants is water and nutrients. You don't really need dirt.
Reddit video: What Trump says he's trying to stop... via measures that have not been tried.
"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these..."
25 million people died because of a lab leak in Wuhan China - that was paid for with American Tax dollars.
No wonder the corrupt left wanted the "wet market" lie to take hold.
The only thing you need to grow plants is water and nutrients. You don't really need dirt.
Try growing them without CO2 or certain wavelengths of light.
Thank You, Leland! I love Brussel sprouts …
I hate you already.
Brussel sprouts; yummy.
“Has Science! tried to grow anything in the dirt brought back from the moon, anybody know? Tomatoes, grass, anything?”
Not moon dirt, but evidently Matt Damon put out enough crap to grow enough potatoes in Martian soil to feed himself for four years.
Brussel sprouts are only nummy when prepared in ways that mask their brussel-sprout-y-ness. olive oil and lemons grown in lunar soil a must.
trumps next to be reversed firings of FTC people. Illegal like all the other cases he is getting beat up in the courts for. Really LOSING a waste of lawyers time and $$$ and he don;t give fuk Just more golf (14 days ) since he got back in and hurry get him them tax cuts then he can spend rest of the time golfing and grifting.. He is losing so much in court that it will be a book of records feat. Looks like his 7th bankruptcy coming through , the US of A.
Play with Italics. You play with matches.
Achilles said...
Michael Fitzgerald said...
Has Science! tried to grow anything in the dirt brought back from the moon, anybody know? Tomatoes, grass, anything?
The only thing you need to grow plants is water and nutrients. You don't really need dirt.
3/19/25, 8:27 PM
That's what I was thinking, hydroponics. To make matters worse, moon soil is hydrophobic- it doesn't absorb water!
Big Mike said...
Thank You, Leland! I love Brussel sprouts …
I hate you already.
3/19/25, 8:37 PM
Original Mike said...
Brussel sprouts; yummy.
3/19/25, 8:45 PM
The pro-Brussel sprout Mikes carry the day, 2-1.
Peachy said...
Brussel sprouts are only nummy when prepared in ways that mask their brussel-sprout-y-ness. olive oil and lemons grown in lunar soil a must.
3/19/25, 9:09 PM
Mmm-moon lemons and lunar oil... I usually sautee them in butter with garlic. I could eat gravel if it's sauteed in butter and garlic.
"The only thing you need to grow plants is water and nutrients. You don't really need dirt."
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Try growing trees with taproots without dirt to anchor them in the ground. Ditto trees like maples or birches with diffuse root systems providing stability, or buttress roots common to rain forest trees.
"Try growing trees with taproots without dirt to anchor them in the ground."
It can be done. In fact, it has been done. Experiments conducted aboard Skylab in the 1970s demonstrated that more or less normal plants can be grown in a microgravity environment by using scaffolding to orient their growth in a arbitrary "vertical" direction. The infamous Biodome project saw small trees growing hydroponically with similar above-ground supports standing in for naturally developing roots. Later work aboard the ISS has shown that at least some plants are essentially oblivious to the absence of Earth-gravity -- cabbage and peas, for example -- and develop normally by orienting to a consistent light source. We may never grow useful mahogany in space, but it appears that growing many foods away from Earth may not be an insurmountable problem.
Brussel sprouts are only yummy when prepared in ways that mask their brussel-sprout-y-ness.
I discovered (from America's Test Kitchen) that a tiny bit of lemon juice removes cooked broccoli's brocliness. It also turns it brown in the frig, so butter it first if you expect (and like) leftovers.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney
This is sadly what America has become - treating innocents as dangerous criminals by our government. Punished by long detentions with no charges or hearings and made to sleep on cold concrete with aluminum foil as blankets.
End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
"Wow, you guys like domestic terror"
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1902567269508506086
The Daily Show's audience applauds the domestic terror incidents against Tesla, disturbing even the liberal host…
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The left is now revealing what we knew all along.
They were never tolerant or inclusive.
They’re militant, hypocritical and they get violent when they don’t get their way.
12:02 AM · Mar 20, 2025
Here we are having a true test of humanity by discussing the value of brussel sprouts (I see all you monsters who consider them edible), and the valiant Left comes in to talk politics. Read the room.
Will. Power - Dragon🔥🔥 Truth Bringer
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The Democrat Party is comprised of 4 things
1. Angry black women
2. Angry white women
3. Angry Hispanic women
4. Effeminate men that are led by 1-3
@RubinReport @CarmineSabia
I am valiant, but I am anything BUT left. I think enough was said about Brussel sprouts on this thread.
Brussel sprouts: delicious and nutritious.
Why do we have to swipe left or right on our phones when making a critical decision and what does that have to do with the POTUS “intention” to use auto-pen? #What struck me this morning while making Amazon deliveries.
They are gross and smell bad when cooked. I’ll cook them for the wife- the small ones, cut off the tough part of the end, salt, pepper and touch of evoo, touch of lemon juice, slice up a few kumquats. Roast, not a pan. Yuk…
Know how hard it is to find kumquats in the south?
Read John Kass today in RealClearPolitics. Strong story that MSM Chicago not covering.
Eric Daugherty
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KORNACKI: We see this. White women, college degree. The only group of white voters that is on the "left" and Democrat. For instance, continuing DEI programs. 68% white, college women say yes. Completely different by ~40 points.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1902505080617853347
https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1902504028959076460
Jesse Kelly
@JesseKellyDC
Here’s a black pill for you:
The communists are going to assassinate a Republican.
They got one assassin outside of Kavanaugh’s house.
Trump got shot in the head.
They’re not gonna miss every time.
There’s one coming.
1:51 PM · Mar 19, 2025
Sick fat ugly Progressive actually stuck his hand down his pants and shit on it. Sums up what Progressives are.
OldGuardsman
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I saw this, now all of you weirdos have to see it. This is the state of Democrats today. We didn't dodge a bullet when they were unable to cheat enough to win. We dodged a MOAB!
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Right Angle News Network
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BREAKING - A man from Indianapolis smears his OWN fecal matter onto a Cybertruck.
This is the state of the democrats.
https://x.com/i/status/1902496799635497234
John Kass' Illinois is here...
https://johnkassnews.com/what-dems-have-done-to-deerfield-girl-and-the-rest-of-illinois-is-just-plain-awfl/
It seems that the "Anti Bullying" seminars the dems launched not long ago were actually How-To confabs.
In further devastating news to our Althouse moron lefty posters Abacus Boy LLR- Democratical Rich, Dumber Than Ever Mark and the one and only Soy Boy Cat Lady gadfly, X has completely closed the value gap from initial Musk purchase date AND is debt free...in just over 2 years.
Another astonishing business achievement by Musk and his teams. And this is before X rolls out its biggest revenue stream applications and capabilities over the next 18 months.
And recall how the Althouse lefty morons said this was IMPOSSIBLE..on top of claiming SpaceX was a fake company (looking at you technology ignoramus gadfly in particular) AND that Tesla was completely fraudulent and would collapse at any minute.
Of course, these buffoons still believe Jazzy Spirit Fingers Stolen-Valor coward Tim Walz is Audie Murphy reincarnated.
Big Mike: you could not be more correct about eliminating the DOE. As a former adjunct, I did a deep dive into grants, conferences and all the other waste. Later I did the same with K-12.
I have told too many stories here about top to bottom waste. Just one semester stands out in my mind: at one community college at which I taught, 60% of the students needed remedial math, reading, and writing skills. But everyone was passed. Some had been there for six years, collecting free taxpayer money for themselves and the school. I was not allowed to fail students, nor remove them from class if they started shouting, making out (yes, it happenned), threatening violence (we had a special button for that), using phones, or crawling up the aisles in unison (some internet game?).
Thank God for the good students. The guy with one hand studying oceanography who was transferring to a state school because his parents didn't have the money for four years of even a cheap state school. The single mom, maybe 20, who also managed a fast food store and could make the uncontrollable afternoon class calm down and was becoming a nurse. The utterly overeducated, thrifty group of older Jamacian women who were becoming pharmacists together (with their mortified nephew, whom they would scold about not sitting up straight). Poor guy. Imagine being that guy, with six aunties as your college classmates.
They're why these schools should exist. They other 90% of the students were there so we could have a bunch of DEI and ethnic administrators making six figures. I made about six dollars an hour because I actually gave reading and writing assignments and held a lot of office hours for the kids returning from Iraq, whom the administrators hated.
We need hyper-local control of our schools, from grade school, college, to Medical, Legal, and Ph.D. I'll be on that board.
"The lib turn against EVs is perhaps the Platonic example of "Libs have no actual beliefs, just hatreds and resentments"'
Undeniably and demonstrably true.
https://x.com/pegobry_en/status/1902371208420560956?t=5vcenR2uelldHVVWyJdTQA&s=19
Eliminate tenure. The "free speech" component is a pile of dung. Fire every single professor at the teacher-training schools. No more fancy little conferences at pricey resorts: use the internet or pay your own damn way. Show up at 9, leave at 5, just like everyone else, and two weeks off a year. No more long summers and winter holidays and spring and fall breaks. No more semesters off every three years. No more obscure and useless academic writing. Teach instead. Publish a book or other substantial research every summer. Stop whining. Get all that extra thinking and writing done 9-5. You're really just fucking employees.
Adam Schiff
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One in three Californians relies on Medicaid.
But at this very moment, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are planning to wipe it out — and use the proceeds for a tax cut.
I will fight with everything I have, every single day, to stop them.
3:01 PM · Mar 18, 2025
James ✝️🇺🇸
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33% of Californians are poverty stricken? Communist countries do better than that.
12:48 PM · Mar 19, 2025
About 1/7 of days are Fridays.
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How many of those are citizens?
2:41 PM · Mar 19, 2025
And no more adjunct slaves. Teach your own damn intro classes, you lazy slatterns.
Thomas Sowell Quotes
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“The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn’t expect you to thank him.”
— Walter E. Williams
Weren't lefties the ones crying that actors should only be of the color or ethnicity of the roles they take?? Isn't it funny, how Netflix uses a little white boy to take the place of the actual murderer which was a little black boy?? Funny that. It didn't fit Netflix's Progressive agenda. Hate WHITEY is all they have.
Almost as bad as our media showing Trayvon Martins 12 year old picture when he was a 17 year old thug with tattoos, and metal teeth brandishing guns all over FB.
Defiant L’s
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Anyone surprised?
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This is how Netflix portrays a 13-year-old knife murderer in the UK. Second image is the person it was based on.
https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1902686306217435266
The answer to the POTUS autopen dilemma is to create an app only activated by the some presidential biometrics that would read the document to the president and depending on how satisfied the president is with it, he can swipe right to activate autopen or left to indicate the document needs work or whatever. I would imagine the president already has a dedicated secure wireless phone. So creating an ASAP Autopen Signature Access President shouldn’t take a rocket scientist. Musk doesn’t have to get involved.
Face recognition is a biometric.
I didn't eat brussel sprouts until I was in my 40s. I was pleasantly surprised. I typically don't like cooked vegetables, but really, I don't like boiled vegetables. Bake or grill them, and they are much better.
We eat cabbage at our house more often than Brussel Sprouts. Cabbage has a salutary effect on blood sugar levels (my wife is monitoring her levels)
Peachy said...
"Brussel sprouts are only nummy when prepared in ways that mask their brussel-sprout-y-ness. "
Not even if you dipped them in chocolate.
"wendybar said...
..Isn't it funny, how Netflix uses a little white boy to take the place of the actual murderer which was a little black boy?? "
Watching true crime show where episode featured heroic detective. Format was actors recreating the action, with cuts to actual participants making comments.
Black actor detective in drama, cuts to real life white detective commenting on actual event.
Amazing decrease in northbound migration of illegals in six weeks.
https://x.com/realtomhoman/status/1902072735754572003?s=61
Remember when that old senile guy said we needed congressional action before this could be achieved?
“Face recognition is a biometric…”
I think comedian Tom Shillue’s “Joe Biden” could fool ‘em, lol.
Trump's plan for health coverage was much better and cheaper than anything else available and would be available from day one. That then became a concept of a plan. Much the same is happening with peace plans.
Dumbest criminal of the day.
https://x.com/jdunlap1974/status/1902645972586385512?s=61
Five-Minute EV-Charging Breakthrough Lifts BYD Stock to a Record ~ WSJ
BYD’s 5-minute charge — is time running out for TSLA? Tesla EV technology is clearly outdated. If it were not for the 100% tariffs the company would be cooked.
“ Five-Minute EV-Charging Breakthrough Lifts BYD Stock to a Record ~ WSJ”
I’ve read about these 5 minute breakthroughs for years. Even bought stock in an electronic battery company once. Strangely, I’m still not rich.
Let’s see how this one holds up.
Nice dig at Tesla though.
Hoo—boy
Tesla Recalls Most Cybertrucks
More than 46,000 of the electric vehicles have potential exterior panel issue, federal agency says ~ WSJ
The idea for an autopen app came from asking the question why do I sometimes have to swipe the screen and sometimes just a touch of the screen will take me to the next step in the package delivery process? The answer is that just touching the screen could happen without my intention, it could happen accidentally. Whereas swiping has to be intentional. That’s how the connection to autopen came about.
When the process of a delivery is finished I have to swipe. Once I swipe right it cannot be undone, whereas if I touch the screen accidentally and I unintentionally go to the next step I can click to go back.
With an app they could do away with autopen and just index finger sign. But it wouldn’t be aesthetically appealing. It wouldn’t be suitable for framing. Leave the autopen machine take the cannolis.
#Things Somebody Else Asked Grok
Who Killed President Kennedy?
https://x.com/ryantyre/status/1902232427537559751
This is how Netflix portrays a 13-year-old knife murderer in the UK. Second image is the person it was based on.
https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1902686306217435266
No. That's fake news. The TV show was already in the works when the Southport attacks happened. Ten times as many people in Britain are murdered with knives than with guns, so if you want to make a series about a teenaged murderer, your killer would use a knife.
As I understand it, the television program was about a high schooler killing a classmate because of problems (bullying, it's been said). The Southport killer went across town to kill three little girls performing in a Taylor Swift dance program. So it's not the same story.
Drago, where are the numbers to back up those investor claims about X? Not in the public record in any verifiable way.
How about those panels on the cybertruck lol?
Grok speaks of Lee Harvey Oswald receiving and depositing a $15,000 check from a front organization called Nova Enterprises?
Is this real, or is it an AI hallucination? AI doesn't make things easier for researchers if it just makes things up.
Wow, a car company has a recall. That's extraordinary.
"Drago, where are the numbers to back up those investor claims about X? Not in the public record in any verifiable way."
I'm puzzled. Are you saying Drago's post that Musk has paid off his X debt is in error?
Lazarus (1:14pm):
That Tweet is NOT "fake news". The guy on the right is not Axel Rudakubana, who knifed six little girls, killing three, in Southport last year. He is Hassan Sentamu, who knifed 15-year-old Elianne Andam (also black) to death at a bus stop in Croydon the year before, when she tried to defend her friend in an argument about a teddy bear. Wikipedia's article on Andam gives 3 footnotes (the last 3) on the connection to the new show.
This monstrosity is the first Tesla car that Elon has had full involvement with.
Absolutely pathetic. Can anyone remember when cars had to be recalled because exterior panels were falling off???
Looks like Tesla and Boeing are operating to similar engineering standards!
TSLA is a stock who's P/E ratio is almost 5x the average, while it's main rival, BYD from China, is blocked by 100%+ tariffs in the US market, while BYD takes about 20% of the time Tesla does to charge. Remind me again why the P/E ratio is 5x the market average?
What a farce.
Kak is some wack kaka.
You will always have Biden in your thoughts, kak, to help you weak-suck yourself to sleep each night.
"while BYD takes about 20% of the time Tesla does to charge. "
That would be a big deal, if true. Can you back that up?
Original Mike (to Abacus Boy LLR-democratical Rich): "That would be a big deal, if true. Can you back that up?"
No, he can't. He has now been conclusively and compehensively shown to be a Harry Sisson-like pathetic, angry, bitter. gaslighting serial liar with nothing driving his big mouth but rage against reality.
And its magnificent!
Drago mewed; "X has completely closed the value gap from initial Musk purchase date AND is debt free...in just over 2 years."
"Think ebitdare (real estate costs), ebitdao (option expenses) and — hideously — ebitdard (research and development)." ~ FT
Charlie Munger (Berkshire Hathaway) said it best:
"I think you would understand any presentation using the word EBITDA if every time you saw that word, you just substituted the phrase with “bullsh*t earnings.”
EBITDA, the bane of my life. I have seen so many variations of it that I could narrate it with a David Attenborough Voice Over.
Nobody did it better than Adam Neuman though. "Community Adjusted EBITDA".
Funny how 'value' has become something that can mean just about anything in real terms, especially in the hands of a skilled manipulator. The same corporation can be presented as having 'zero cash value' and as being worth 'billions' depending on how the figures are presented or the reason for presenting them. It makes the pea in the cup game look quite professional as a way of keeping track of where any monetary value actually is. It certainly explains how so many major scams are able to happen in plain sight. MAGA 🤣🤣
OG Mike: Google -- Five-Minute EV-Charging Breakthrough Lifts BYD Stock to a Record ~ WSJ
KaKa - That's a Chinese press release.
Abacus Boy LLR-democratical Rich continues down the path of spittle-flecked anger first trail-blazed by his Althouse blog political forebear LLR-democratical Chuck!
The inevitable mental conflagration at the end will be something to behold!
My recommendation: stock up on popcorn as all of Musk's companies, which Abacus Boy Rich called frauds and failures headed to bankruptcy, and he meant every single one of them because he is just that dumb along with his heroes kamala and Idiot Walz, are succeeding far beyond what moron Rich said was possible!
You can just picture Rich's jaw tightening and tears of anger streaking his face as SpaceX rescued the stranded astronauts while Li'l Rich was praying to gaia for a fiery disaster...and it just never came.
Drago does the 'gibberish dance" -- again......
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